A photo editor I worked with in the past had a good way to describe what working at a daily newspaper is.
He was saying that a newspaper is like a big monster. You feed him all day long with photos and stories. And no matter how many pages you produced, how many photos you put in, how many texts you wrote, at 12h01 in the morning, you go back with a hundred blank pages to fill.
Being a freelancer is more or less the same. You can have a great month with many assignments and money is coming in. But it does not matter how much money you made on the 31 of the month, because on the first day of the next one you go back to zero, and you have to reach your overhead to stay out of the water.
And when you reach it before the 10th of the month like I just did this month, it’s pretty reassuring.
Back from a 3 days of shooting stock in Montreal. I shot about 350 frames in two days (Edward couldn’t sleep the second night, so I was way too tired to go shoot on Sunday) and just finished a selection of about 85 photos that will be submitted to various photo banks. A lot of post-processing in the next few days! I stumbled into a couple of feature photos while walking the street, so I’ll post some of that here eventually (already did with this one).
As planned and explained in my previous French post, I sat with 5 young photographers who would like to break into this business. 4 of them are still student at the CEGEP du Vieux-Montreal college. There was a lot of talent there! It went pretty well. I mainly reviewed their portfolio and answered general questions about the business. Apparently, Carl-Antoine Mainville Larocque was happy with the time he spent with me, even posting a picture of me suggesting a tighter crop to a photo with the help of some napkin paper.
Éric Fortier joins hands as he sit in the Sun-Yat-Sen park in the Montreal China town October 30, 2008. Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/250 at f4 with a 70-200 at 200mm – ISO 400
